With agencies dueling to regulate nursing homes, aligning priorities for a strategic compliance program may be more challenging than ever.

While providers aren’t required to follow OIG recommendations, a compliance program based on their guidance can spare ...

Inconsistent interpretation of federal regulations at the state level, and surveyor subjectivity are gray areas that will ...

It was another long night in the quality department. The reports didn’t add up, the complaints kept coming, and somewhere in the data, the truth was ...

Under a final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, hospital outpatient facilities and ambulatory surgical centers will get a 2.9% Medicare pay increase next year, up from the ...

CDPH proposes to require GACH clinical laboratories to ensure that consultative and support services related to the care and safety of blood donors and transfusion recipients are directed by an ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has the authority to require that, in order to participate in the Medicare program, certain types of providers and suppliers meet health and safety ...

Curating a specific plan based on a home health provider’s needs, deficiencies and vulnerabilities is key to having successful Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs. That was ...

Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs have been ubiquitous in the home health space for the past few years, but in light of the nationwide expansion of the Home Health ...

Waiting is hard. The questions, the anticipation, and the uncertainties can be frustrating, even exhausting. Long term care facility leaders and teams know this from experience. They have been waiting ...